Yes the regular expression has a useless \ (legacy from using bits of other scripts and not cleaning them up). Your Print suggesting is much far better, thanks (I'll remember that). It does work on my Win2000 (perl 5.005_02 built for MSWin32-x86-object). It took about 2mins 30 seconds and the system has 66,150 files in 7,850 directories so I guess that is pretty reasonable (windows takes 2 mins to search for all files and it has the indexing service). My only option would be to limit the places it searches I guess. Thanks

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